ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Half of the full-time employees and part-time workers who help with shows and events at the Dr.
Phillips Center for the Performing Arts will be furloughed, the center said in a statement on Thursday. The Orlando Sentinel first reported the news Thursday afternoon, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer also made a note of it during a press conference Thursday evening. “We recognize companies all over the world have had to face tough decisions—many much earlier in the process—in order to ensure their organizations’ long-term viability and we are grateful to have received one of the first loans provided for in the CARES Act, which gave us the ability to compensate all our part-time and full-time staff throughout the past 11 weeks,